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The CD-ROM version of the 1994 educational title Mario’s Early Years: Fun with Numbers contains a song where nine Koopalings are enumerated:
1. Iggy Koopa
2. Roy Koopa
3. Larry Koopa
4. ?
5. Ludwig von Koopa
6. Lemmy Koopa
7. Morton Koopa Jr.
8. Wendy O. Koopa
9. ?
The names of Koopalings 4 and 9 are not stated, and their identities remain unclear to this day as they have not reappeared since.
In WarioWare: Touched, Jimmy T.’s boss microgame, Rainbow Juice, has a special failure condition for simply not interacting with the console. If you don’t touch the touchscreen at all, the rainbow will very gradually fade, darkening the playing area. Once the rainbow fades completely, the bucket will tip over and tremble in near complete darkness as the microgame is declared failed. Since this is extremely difficult to see on a console, I have increased the contrast to make the animation visible.
Unlicensed Chinese board game based on Super Mario World. Note the Yoshi design on a card in the bottom right.
1996 job listing for open software development positions at Rare, from the British Edge magazine.
The D.I.Y. Forum seen in WarioWare: D.I.Y. features numerous examples of Internet slang and references.
In the first half of the 1990′s, Nintendo’s tech support service has used special cartridges to test SNES systems’ various functions to determine if the console was fully operational. One such cartridge, the 1992 SNES Burn-in Test Cartridge, contains a unique sprite of the Mario enemy known as Podoboo or Lava Bubble (top image). Although the sprite’s lines are identical to the Super Mario World Lava Bubble, the coloring is completely different. While this is almost certainly a coincidence, this coloring has shown up in Paper Mario: Color Splash in 2016, 24 years later (bottom image).
In the prototype for Mario Kart: Double Dash, a character select image of Donkey Kong Jr. can be seen instead of Diddy Kong, suggesting that a return of Donkey Kong Jr. to the Mario Kart series was planned after his absence in Mario Kart 64 and Mario Kart: Super Circuit, but was later scrapped. Note that in the finished game, Donkey Kong Jr. can still be seen as part of the audience in Waluigi Stadium.
1990 promotional poster for Club Nintendo France featuring a wide variety of video game and cartoon characters interacting, including many copies of Mario.
In Game & Watch Gallery 2, the “Ball” minigame has four playable characters that can be selected: Mario, Yoshi, Wario and Bowser. A mode with a fifth playable character, Peach, exists in the game’s code but is not normally accessible. Using cheats, Peach can be selected and played as, however due to being scrapped, the minigame’s graphics are not rendered correctly, resulting in Peach being displayed with two heads.
Margin illustrations from a Japanese guide for Super Mario Kart. (Source: Super Mario Kart Shogakukan Guide (Japan), APE, 1992)
